Did you know some birds bury their eggs in warm volcanic soils so they don't have to sit on them? If not, you might enjoy my new bird fact video! youtu.be/XNopPMnmp1s

i was in a rut today and @hgmodernism.bsky.social 's video made me feel better so here's a drawing of a Dowitcher

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

What is the alternative to a stiff upper lip? What else might the upper lip be doing?

I just reached 100K subs! This was somewhat unexpected, so I've written up an explanation here! youtube.com/post/Ugkxlq5...

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but this video by @hgmodernism.bsky.social is so delightful

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

The perplexing lyrics to Winter Wonderland live rent free in my head youtu.be/Rx3A9mBGIdU

I've been so overwhelmed by the societal implications of AI I forgot about the theological. Now I really need to know how all the religions are interpreting it, especially for followers who question its sentience etc

Don't want spooky season to be over? Do like Jemaine Clement and artists behind the Over the Garden Wall soundtrack? Then you might enjoy this song I discovered the day after Halloween! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJdF...

Some thoughts are the kind you keep to yourself. Some thoughts are the kind that build in pressure until you simply must release them out onto the internet youtu.be/3SHR5bcXCJQ

I still can't get YT's AI auto-dubbing and title translations to turn off properly, and didn't even know I was opted in until my viewers complained

YouTubers have an "auto AI reply-bot" tool that supposedly responds to viewer comments in the creator's unique voice. I wanted to see if I could train it to act like an edgy rude gamer by insulting my subs. youtu.be/dIs9c2tetqM

Just going to leave this excellent painting of the biblical prophet Ezekiel there... It's giving Disco Elysium

HOLY HECK YOU GUYS IT WORKED! It's always time for healthy teeth™! I... I don't know what to say... Thank you for your excellent participation!!!

So there's a direct reason for the sycophancy! It's a major issue because of Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)!

So you’re probably aware that YTers have a tool to “respond” to comments with “AI”. I’m curious whether this tool takes any information from MY actual comments. Reply to my YT post and I’ll reply with a scathing PG insult! Then I'll update if my reply recs change! www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx0Kj...

Are there non-Christian religious music bands in the same way there's Christian Contemporary? Like "We were meant to live for so much more... Have we lost ourselves? Somewhere we live in a cycle of reincarnation"

You know what our bleak dystopia could use a little more of? Houseplants! Why settle for dreary grays when your future could have fascism with a nice dash of green? Follow my plant tips to be the envy of your fellow compatriots! youtu.be/P0EQUdCff_s

@katewagner.bsky.social Someone made a costume for this cat www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...

Nuance is unexpectedly spicy 🌶️ youtu.be/tE610X3weik

Have you watched Les Mis and noticed a strange impossibility? Good news, if it's the same mystery that bothered me, I solved it! youtu.be/wwDo7hz8kxo #LesMis #LesMiserables

The username irony is palpable

why doesn't Darth Vader ever fiddle with the buttons on his chest? he's got built-in fidget buttons but he always acts like he's too cool to press 'em. he's not

Sometimes I have to hold in my bird facts in polite society, but not today youtu.be/X6QzSKKhxGE

If you decide to put your face on the internet, be prepared for multiple independent commenters to tell you who your eyes look like. For me that's Finnish developer of the linux kernel and overall git Linus Torvalds... hooray!

Just some recs for some scrumptiously perfectly baked art. No Filler. No Soggy Bottoms. No stretching 30 minutes of content into a whole season... youtu.be/vfV6Vu8X4sw

Tired of the AI generated tab at the top YOUR search? Just add the word "fuck" to your search query! It will make the search no longer "safe" to generate a summary for ☺️

@sunsetvisitor.studio If I were hypothetically making a video about your game, how would I go about pronouncing the title? Is it "one thousand ex resist" or "a thousand times resist" or something else?

It turns out a sculpture can have the material "taxidermized horse"... Cattelan's Novecento

Will good people always be one step behind? Does an ethical person always have a smaller subset of tools to change the world than an unethical person? Good people keep losing, so here's what to do about it youtu.be/C3s9aaT7WY8

I watched this video this morning and it really has been instructive for understanding, well, a lot of behavior. youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

Nothing takes the steam out of a techno-billionaire dystopia quite like breaking your phone addiction. Because what if the best life... isn't frictionless? youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

Tis only human to error, and this human has done so multiple times over the last year. Thanks to my incredible viewers I have made an errata video to both correct and celebrate the never ending journey towards being less wrong. youtu.be/VSwXMbdYUe4

Waking up every morning of 2025... so far... youtu.be/G8qhrURrQbI

My new years resolution is to start drinking so I can quit and experience such wonders as blissful sleep, greater focus, and deep connection

Sleep No More was such an incredible experience. I made a retrospective on what worked so well about the invisible design and what went into perfecting the immersion. If you didn't get to see it, it's a glimpse into the dream: youtu.be/ng845C662I0

I hate when they cut good old proverbs short. Like the old “Amicus meus, inimicus inimici mei.“ The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The enemy of my friend is my enemy. The friend of my enemy is my enemy. The friend of my friend is my friend. There, was that so hard?

So Paypal Honey… Affiliate marketing can have inherently bad incentives. It allows large companies to push both the burdens of salesmenship and ad claim liability to the affiliate, all the while benefiting from their social or parasocial bonds

You can tell I'm cool because last night I had a dream where I accidentally took an illegal drug with the street name "Fuller" and the effect was Buckminsterfullerenes spinning in my vision

Folks are excited about AI girlfriends but I'm honestly just looking forward to AI grandchildren. I mean sure, it's missing the essence of reality, in that they would not forget to call

The internet helped me find my long lost grandpa, I never noticed the resemblance until it was pointed out to me many many times... It's a nearly Christmas miracle

One additional thought to add to Hank Green's excellent video: the current phase after "the Internet" is ML recommendations and targeted ads allowing popularists to be popular with everyone. youtu.be/d8PndpFPL8g @hankgreen.bsky.social

I fixed my lactose intolerance by testing out what I learned from a cool research paper! youtu.be/h90rEkbx95w

Have you been feeling anxious nervous energy? Maybe you've been burned out on activism for a while, but right now you're feeling angry and just want to do something? Harness that energy with intention to gain momentum for when you are numb again! youtu.be/uJt1UHmPIJw

It's a hard task to make a psychological thriller with stakes most people don't care about? I saw Conclave, 12 Angry Men but with popes, in a mostly empty theater, so I made this video to rant about why it's weird youtu.be/B-8EmvThPYE #Conclave

Halloween is almost upon us, so I offer the tale of my favorite witch. If you think you know how Ventriloquism began, you're probably wrong? The etymology is from the Latin venter (belly) and loqui (speak), so prepare yourself... youtu.be/4R0kINbG7LM

What if... what if someone used all the information from data breaches to create an AI model trained to target people... using real victim responses as training data... what if... youtu.be/2Z0xiIvoO5g

YouTubers may inadvertently dox themselves if they put their real full name in YT's "Blocked Words". This is why we can't have nice things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDAW...